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Findings from our red team — privacy research, attack classes, and the design rules they taught us.
2026-03-05
Your exact location never leaves your device
Snakken is a location app whose servers never see a location. How we use H3 cells computed on the phone to know your neighbourhood without ever learning your coordinates — and why we designed the API so we couldn't cheat later.
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